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1960s
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You Love More Than Most
Albums you rated higher than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Among The Living | 5 | 2.86 | +2.14 |
| White Light / White Heat | 5 | 2.88 | +2.12 |
| Joan Baez | 5 | 2.96 | +2.04 |
| Sister | 5 | 3.02 | +1.98 |
| The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn | 5 | 3.11 | +1.89 |
| Rid Of Me | 5 | 3.11 | +1.89 |
| They Were Wrong, So We Drowned | 4 | 2.11 | +1.89 |
| Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
| Trout Mask Replica | 4 | 2.28 | +1.72 |
| Made In Japan | 5 | 3.29 | +1.71 |
You Love Less Than Most
Albums you rated lower than global average
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Hour | 1 | 3.09 | -2.09 |
| Time (The Revelator) | 1 | 3.06 | -2.06 |
| Back to Mystery City | 1 | 2.68 | -1.68 |
| Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room | 1 | 2.6 | -1.6 |
| Play | 2 | 3.47 | -1.47 |
| Slippery When Wet | 2 | 3.29 | -1.29 |
| Since I Left You | 2 | 3.28 | -1.28 |
| 1989 | 2 | 3.27 | -1.27 |
| Little Earthquakes | 2 | 3.22 | -1.22 |
| Vivid | 2 | 3.19 | -1.19 |
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Artists with 2+ albums and high weighted score
| Artist | Albums | Avg | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Bowie | 5 | 4.8 | 4.13 |
| Beatles | 5 | 4.6 | 4 |
| The Velvet Underground | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Led Zeppelin | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Deep Purple | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Nirvana | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Joni Mitchell | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| Metallica | 3 | 4.67 | 3.83 |
| The Doors | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 2 | 5 | 3.8 |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 4.25 | 3.71 |
| PJ Harvey | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Talking Heads | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
| Neil Young | 3 | 4.33 | 3.67 |
5-Star Albums (63)
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Gillian Welch
1/5
It wasn’t offensive to the ears or anything I just could not connect to it in any way
5 likes
1-Star Albums (4)
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3/5
The songs that attempt to be really impactful (which is most of them) kind of overdo it and they fall flat for me, but I do find the more straightforward ones to be more enjoyable
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
It's easy to write off a lot of 80s synth pop as having aged badly but I think this one has enough musical depth to keep it interesting
The xx
3/5
It's nice-sounding but there's not much more to it than that
The Who
4/5
Great showcase of how much more creative a rock band can be during a live concert than in the studio
Amy Winehouse
4/5
Yes
4/5
Great album but it does not reach the heights of Fragile and Close to the Edge
Tori Amos
2/5
Def Leppard
4/5
Just a bit of fun
The Velvet Underground
5/5
This album is raunchy, dirty, ugly, and smelly. 5/5
The Soft Boys
4/5
Never heard of this before it was a pleasant surprise how enjoyable I found it.
Also can people just do a quick google search before listening to these albums so that they are not needlessly listening to 30 bonus tracks before they rate a 36 minute album low for being "too long"
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Would have been a 5 if that one line in Stray Cat Blues didn't exist
Michael Jackson
4/5
Half great songs half meh songs
Sepultura
4/5
Tim Buckley
3/5
Most of these songs went on too long
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Idk it kind of makes sense for the songs about drug abuse and sadomasochism to sound rough
The Cure
5/5
First listen loved the vibes of this
Slipknot
3/5
Oasis
3/5
Some bangers with the rest being kind of annoying
Don McLean
4/5
One of the greatest songs ever made followed by some nice little folk tunes
Michael Kiwanuka
4/5
Sugar
2/5
Some of the songs are catchy but much of the album just blends with each other with a generic sound
Joni Mitchell
4/5
Alice In Chains
4/5
Air
4/5
Probably would be better in the context of the movie but I enjoyed the songs on their own nonetheless
Bon Jovi
2/5
Listening to a Bon Jovi song on the radio every once and a while is fun but a whole album? no
The B-52's
4/5
i enjoy a bit of silliness now and then
4/5
thom yorke jumpscare
Norah Jones
3/5
it's nice and all but also very conventional
Jane Weaver
4/5
Ministry
3/5
My Bloody Valentine
4/5
my bloody valentine fans when someone whispers into their ear while a power drill is turned on for 40 minutes straight (aka i enjoyed this)
The Sugarcubes
4/5
It's so jarring hearing Bjork singing in something that isn't hyperpop, but it still goes hard
George Michael
3/5
Roxy Music
3/5
The first half was kind of lame but the second half was actually really cool with more varied tracks
Pixies
5/5
Just a really solid and unique album
Elvis Presley
3/5
Dr. Dre
5/5
Almost half of these songs are in GTA games so even though this was technically a first time listen it was still nostalgic for me
Morrissey
3/5
Beck
4/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
Can
4/5
Incredible Bongo Band
4/5
hoooooly shit
The Police
4/5
The second half seemed to have songs that I recognized more, those being really good compared to a pretty meh first half of the album
Heaven 17
4/5
funky
Songhoy Blues
4/5
I think the instrumentals can be seen as generic blues rock that’s nothing to write home about, but the combination with traditional African music styles makes this a really cool and unique listen
Anthrax
5/5
Used to love a bunch of these songs when I had a metal phase and they still hold up for me
Led Zeppelin
5/5
The best rock albums have a song where they're just like "yeah here's the drummer doing his thing"
Guided By Voices
4/5
Portishead
5/5
John Lee Hooker
3/5
Some of the production here doesn't fit well with the traditionally blues vibe
Janet Jackson
4/5
John Martyn
3/5
Gillian Welch
1/5
It wasn’t offensive to the ears or anything I just could not connect to it in any way
R.E.M.
3/5
The Zombies
5/5
Great blend of cheesy 60s pop with psychadelia
Pulp
3/5
Sonic Youth
5/5
cool
The Doors
5/5
i like the combination of fun rock songs and weird blues songs
5/5
yeah
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Van Morrison
3/5
Tom Waits
3/5
Patti Smith
4/5
Peter Gabriel
4/5
Nina Simone
5/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
With this album they employed a new artistic strategy called "writing your own songs"
Deep Purple
5/5
Public Enemy
5/5
Beastie Boys
3/5
Missy Elliott
4/5
banger after banger
Sepultura
4/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Wilco
3/5
Roxy Music
4/5
Beastie Boys
4/5
Badly Drawn Boy
4/5
The Doors
5/5
I didn’t like this one as much as other doors albums before but now I see the vision
Arcade Fire
4/5
Deep Purple
5/5
The Verve
3/5
Beatles
5/5
pretty superfluous to give this a rating but yeah.
Coldplay
3/5
Paul Simon
4/5
3/5
Fleetwood Mac
5/5
some songs aren’t sad good as others but I’d say it deserves a 5 still
Talking Heads
5/5
Grant Lee Buffalo
3/5
Metallica
4/5
after enter sandman all of the songs are either dynamic and interesting or enter sandman but not as good
Santana
5/5
The Stone Roses
4/5
Motörhead
4/5
never got into motorhead much but i like their live sound
Thelonious Monk
4/5
Julian Cope
3/5
The Smiths
4/5
goddamn it morrisey
Moby
2/5
way too stripped down and repetitive
The Dictators
3/5
Dwight Yoakam
1/5
hating country music isn’t a very original sentiment but come on man
Brian Eno
4/5
Steely Dan
4/5
Alanis Morissette
3/5
Neil Young
4/5
Eurythmics
4/5
Living Colour
2/5
Elton John
4/5
M.I.A.
4/5
Charles Mingus
5/5
playing this on repeat in my evil lair
King Crimson
5/5
The Offspring
3/5
Jane's Addiction
4/5
50 Cent
3/5
Marilyn Manson
3/5
album is not bad but this guy sucks
Fairport Convention
4/5
Adele
3/5
This is pretty good but honestly most of the songs had me wishing I was listening to amy winehouse instead. and the cure oddly enough
Tim Buckley
4/5
The Shamen
4/5
The Last Shadow Puppets
4/5
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4/5
Pet Shop Boys
4/5
Gorillaz
4/5
Funkadelic
4/5
Baaba Maal
3/5
Hanoi Rocks
1/5
get real
Nirvana
5/5
The Magnetic Fields
3/5
Buffalo Springfield
4/5
U2
4/5
Blur
3/5
Black Sabbath
5/5
Blue Cheer
4/5
Genesis
4/5
things are getting whimsical
Paul Weller
3/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Suede
4/5
Crowded House
3/5
Prince
5/5
sex
The Go-Betweens
3/5
George Michael
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
4/5
i got halfway through a different royal albert hall album from 1966 with the same track list before realizing it was the wrong album and then switched to the correct album which isn’t much different. moral of the story is i am insane but these songs are quite nice so i don’t mind listening to them again
The Mothers Of Invention
4/5
this is silly
David Bowie
5/5
Nirvana
5/5
Primal Scream
4/5
Milton Nascimento
4/5
Richard Thompson
3/5
Neu!
4/5
Rod Stewart
3/5
Franz Ferdinand
4/5
Fugees
4/5
Elvis Presley
3/5
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
Christina Aguilera
3/5
None of the songs are all that bad but this type of music gets tiring when listening to it as a whole album and not just as something playing on the radio
Bob Dylan
4/5
The 13th Floor Elevators
4/5
Blood, Sweat & Tears
4/5
Eagles
4/5
I love big Lebowski references but idk I think this is pretty good
Iron Maiden
5/5
First couple of songs are probably the weakest but once it gets going it’s bangers all the way through. Also Iron Maiden album art deserves a five in its own right
Miles Davis
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
Marvin Gaye
4/5
The Auteurs
3/5
The Teardrop Explodes
3/5
The Black Crowes
3/5
sucks until the second half
Justice
4/5
Eric Clapton
3/5
Sex Pistols
3/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Ash
3/5
Beck
4/5
Aphex Twin
5/5
Little Simz
4/5
Slipknot
3/5
The Rolling Stones
5/5
like going down the main street of an entire city and hearing all of the different types of music in each block
Al Green
4/5
David Bowie
5/5
Pentangle
4/5
The Specials
3/5
John Lennon
4/5
Joan Armatrading
4/5
Beth Orton
4/5
Dusty Springfield
4/5
The Kinks
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
few other albums discuss the character of Grimble Crumble
Calexico
3/5
David Bowie
4/5
Rahul Dev Burman
3/5
Frank Black
4/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
this is the greatest double album ever made my word is final
Ride
4/5
Donovan
4/5
Morrissey
3/5
Nas
4/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
4/5
Circle Jerks
2/5
David Bowie
5/5
The Birthday Party
2/5
Judas Priest
4/5
Giant Sand
3/5
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
Incubus
3/5
Can
4/5
Jeff Buckley
5/5
Tracy Chapman
4/5
Scott Walker
4/5
first song got me thinking about ingmar bergman’s classic 1957 film for some reason
Bee Gees
2/5
did they all wake up one day and realize that they had more interesting vocals than this
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5/5
Garbage
5/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Bob Dylan
4/5
Johnny Cash
5/5
Country music used to be like this. What happened
PJ Harvey
5/5
The Clash
3/5
3/5
Cheap Trick
3/5
Johnny Cash
4/5
N.W.A.
4/5
Joni Mitchell
5/5
Solange
4/5
Simon & Garfunkel
5/5
Daft Punk
4/5
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
4/5
Beach House
3/5
Justin Timberlake
3/5
Scott Walker
4/5
Madonna
3/5
Queen
4/5
LL Cool J
3/5
Small Faces
3/5
B.B. King
4/5
Jane's Addiction
2/5
Cocteau Twins
5/5
T. Rex
4/5
Frank Ocean
4/5
Gang Starr
4/5
Leonard Cohen
4/5
Neil Young
4/5
The Beach Boys
5/5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3/5
Sisters Of Mercy
4/5
D'Angelo
3/5
ABBA
4/5
Carole King
4/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Mercury Rev
4/5
Fleet Foxes
4/5
Dire Straits
4/5
Fats Domino
4/5
Jimmy Smith
4/5
Alice Cooper
3/5
Tina Turner
3/5
The KLF
3/5
James Brown
4/5
Aimee Mann
3/5
Queen Latifah
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3/5
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
Got two Elvis Costello albums in a row but this one was significantly better so it’s fine
Prefab Sprout
4/5
Sarah Vaughan
4/5
The Velvet Underground
5/5
Skunk Anansie
3/5
Spiritualized
3/5
Deep Purple
5/5
Joan Baez
5/5
Kanye West
4/5
what happened man
Soft Cell
3/5
Electric Light Orchestra
4/5
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3/5
AC/DC
3/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
4/5
The Black Keys
3/5
Coldplay
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
George Harrison
4/5
Taylor Swift
2/5
most of the songs were catchy with flashy production but just felt really shallow and sauceless and then the last three songs were actually quite nice and made me wonder why the entire album wasn't like that
Super Furry Animals
3/5
Stan Getz
4/5
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4/5
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4/5
hell yeah brother
Soundgarden
3/5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4/5
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
4/5
It’s hard to rate something like this with it stemming from such a different cultural context than I’m used to, so I can’t really think about this the same as the 50th britpop album that Dimery included in the list.
Stereolab
3/5
Kraftwerk
4/5
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
never watched superfly but goddamn
X-Ray Spex
3/5
Paul Revere & The Raiders
4/5
Led Zeppelin
5/5
Randy Newman
3/5
Thundercat
4/5
Nirvana
5/5
Boards of Canada
4/5
Afrika Bambaataa
3/5
Syd Barrett
4/5
Funkadelic
5/5
Willie Nelson
4/5
Waylon Jennings
3/5
Paul McCartney and Wings
4/5
JAY Z
3/5
A Tribe Called Quest
4/5
PJ Harvey
4/5
Beatles
4/5
John Prine
4/5
Beatles
4/5
Metallica
5/5
Talking Heads
4/5
Culture Club
3/5
Beatles
5/5
there are no bad songs or sound mosaics on this album. if you disagree with me you are wrong
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3/5
fIREHOSE
4/5
Depeche Mode
4/5
Laura Nyro
3/5
Kate Bush
4/5
Weather Report
3/5
nothing particularly wrong with this it just has cheesy soap opera music vibes
Metallica
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4/5
The Verve
4/5
Black Sabbath
4/5
Iron Butterfly
4/5
Fugazi
3/5
The Avalanches
2/5
4/5
Moby Grape
3/5
Cream
4/5
Cat Stevens
4/5
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4/5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4/5
5/5
Jimi Hendrix
5/5
Blur
3/5
Talking Heads
4/5
GZA
4/5
Neil Young
5/5
Sade
4/5
Peter Tosh
4/5
Louis Prima
4/5
The Byrds
3/5
The Chemical Brothers
3/5
System Of A Down
4/5
Air
4/5
Fiona Apple
4/5
Ice Cube
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
Bee Gees
3/5
Buena Vista Social Club
4/5
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
The Pogues
4/5
Ray Charles
4/5
Iggy Pop
4/5
Fela Kuti
4/5
Kacey Musgraves
1/5
The Smashing Pumpkins
4/5
The Vines
3/5
Queen
3/5
OutKast
4/5
Dolly Parton
3/5
ZZ Top
3/5
Billy Bragg
3/5
Television
4/5
Faust
4/5
The Flaming Lips
4/5
U2
4/5
The Beau Brummels
4/5
Miriam Makeba
4/5
Janelle Monáe
4/5
808 State
3/5
Travis
3/5
Nico
4/5
Shack
3/5
The Rolling Stones
4/5
The White Stripes
3/5
G. Love & Special Sauce
2/5
Isaac Hayes
4/5